Curaçao Drops Two Aviator LLC Trademarks After Spribe Challenge

Two Aviator-branded trademarks registered to Aviator LLC have disappeared from the Curaçao register. Spribe brought the case and won after the defendant failed to attend the proceedings.

The change has already been recorded by Curaçao’s intellectual property bureau. It affects two international registrations from 2024, while an older Aviator mark held by Spribe remains untouched.

What Was Removed

The registrations in question are IR 1822051 and IR 1827771. The first covers a combined word and figurative Aviator mark in classes 9, 28 and 41. The second is for the AVIATOR word mark and applies to classes 9, 41 and 42. Both reached Curaçao through the Madrid trademark system.

Spribe’s own filing predates them. IR 1759803 was registered in August 2023. That timing became part of the case.

Aviator LLC Did Not Defend the Case

The Court of First Instance issued its judgment on May 25, 2026. Aviator LLC had been summoned but did not appear. The court therefore dealt with Spribe’s application without hearing arguments from the other side.

There was a small administrative twist four days later. The court had to correct errors in the registration numbers used in the first judgment. The decision itself stayed the same. Aviator LLC was also ordered to pay a little over Cg 2,196 in legal costs.

One Trademark Had Already Changed Hands

Spribe argued that the two marks had been registered without its consent. One of them had a separate ownership history. Rational Intellectual Holdings Limited originally filed the registration before transferring it to Aviator LLC in March 2025.

The Curaçao proceedings also refer back to the companies’ earlier commercial relationship. A former Georgian licensee linked to Aviator LLC had permission under agreements from 2018 and 2021 to operate the Aviator game in Georgia and Armenia. That arrangement eventually gave way to litigation.

Georgia Produced the Opposite Result

Aviator LLC has had far more success in Georgia. A Georgian court ruled in 2024 that Spribe’s trademarks there had been registered in bad faith and infringed Aviator LLC’s copyright. It awarded $330 million in damages. The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld that judgment in May 2025.

The UK story has developed differently. Spribe obtained an interim injunction in July 2025 that blocked Aviator LLC from launching a competing Aviator crash game there. In May 2026, an English court also refused to treat the Georgian findings as automatically decisive in the British case.

Attention Turns to the UK

The next big challenge will probably happen in the UK, where a full trial will take place towards the end of 2026 or in early 2027. Until that happens, the two parties will have to rely on their respective national rulings, with Aviator LLC having an advantage in Georgia and Spribe having removed the rival trademarks in Curaçao.